ESP USA Factory Tour with Master Builder Gil Vasquez (check out these guitars!!)

[@1sinister80]

ESP makes awsome stuff. Love em.

[@kiblerjim]

Thank you so much for sharing! I really enjoyed this factory tour!

[@AGore88]

Thank you so so much for filming and uploading this!! I'm a huge ESP USA fan and seeing the faces behind the masterpieces is just awesome!

[@andrewd1855]

Thank you for the tour !! Very cool to see behind the scenes, I own a ESP E2/M2 and love it !!! Stay da kine! AloooooHa!

[@mundojuillerat]

Andrew D mahalo for the comment. I just was checking out the ESP USA “cosmos” series. Sick!!

[@greg_burn_themetalmotorcyclist]

Great video! It was nice meeting you briefly, and glad you had a chance to come visit! Gil really has done some good things since he joined our shop! Mahalo!

[@mundojuillerat]

Thank you! With all the great response from this vid I was telling Gil that I'd like to come back post-pandemic and do an update!

[@greg_burn_themetalmotorcyclist]

@@mundojuillerat please do! Very cool "behind the scenes" and back story, people love to see and hear it!

[@darthdurkelthewise320]

Thanks for sharing this unique and personal look into the creative and small world of ESP. This makes me even happier to be an owner and supporter of this company, both the USA and Japan operations. 🤘🏻

[@zipchtkdn7804]

I'm sure the local City and county inspector would love to be inside of that customer shop

[@อานนท์จอสูงเนิน]

I really like the idea of that carving machine. I might built mine one day.

[@mundojuillerat]

That would be cool!

[@Colin.W]

Seeing things in your video is giving me ideas of what I want. Love the V shape for standing but I also love the Eclipse.

[@mundojuillerat]

Cool! Circle back and let us know what you decide on? In a perfect world you get both!

[@AkiraSpectrum]

Very cool! Thanks a lot for the tour. Maybe one day i'll be lucky enough to own an ESP USA.

[@incognitoguitars9999]

Great video! Thx for sharing!

[@ericglassco1445]

I could never actually afford one of these new… but I came across a used ESP USA TE-II hanging on the wall at Guitar Center for half of what it would cost new… I bought it without a second thought.. it ruined me!!! I can’t buy budget guitars anymore!! The quality and playability of the ESP is totally unbelievable!!!

[@affiliatedx3]

I happen to own that guitar that's at the end that Gil is holding. It's a beauty but I am too afraid to ding it up so I keep it inside the case and only play it once in a while LOL

[@greg_burn_themetalmotorcyclist]

😲🙏

[@miketurner4173]

Great content ✌️🤘🏴🇦🇺

[@micksinger5240]

African Blackwood sinks

[@blackscorpion7831]

I would like to work in that factory, I really like ESP guitars, they are very professional.

[@nancywilson6526]

Very cool. Love esp guitars. I used to have a japanese custom m2 I think it was. Great guitar..

[@zipchtkdn7804]

Gil is great

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

Wow. Very cool. I would love to work there. I used to program CNCs in the machine shop industry. CNCs make guitars and anything else better. They never get tired, they are acxurate, etc.

[@beotheguitarist]

Cool video! Two of my USA ESP's came out of this factory and my third ESP is from Japan.

[@beotheguitarist]

@@stevebrule6172 Love it. But I've had it for many years. It's a 2011 Horizon FR-II.

[@Alfredo78666]

- Thank you for the tour - What?! - Whaaat?! - Whaaaaat?!

[@davidfaustino4476]

You can always tell how Portuguese a guitar player is by how much Nuno gear he owns. Parabens amigo.

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Thanks to stimulus i now own a esp usa m 2,never thought id own a 4 grand guitar

[@mmmcoffee5536]

I would love to learn how to builds guitars from Gil. Seems like such an awesome guy to work with.

[@aniqanuar6320]

I'll be absolutely happy with any of the b stocks they have😂

[@raine4214]

You should definitely do a video about picking his brain about his time with the Washburn custom shop!

[@mundojuillerat]

Great idea! That custom shop was excellent in it’s day!

[@mundojuillerat]

Thanx for the suggestion!

[@LeoM-zt3pl]

I feel like the ESP Japanese custom shop video showed more professional and higher skilled workers. Some of this stuff looks very amature for how expensive the ESP USA 🇺🇸 guitars are

[@soundthealarm]

Yeah, CA has/had some work to do. Hope they refined the man. set up in 2023

[@Masterfighterx]

Dang, no harm doing B stock at a discount, that top on that Horizon is killer and not seen very often!

[@theone614]

The one he said the carve wound up not being right wound up being absolutely gorgeous to me LOL.

[@mundojuillerat]

I thought the same thing!

[@jacksonmarshallkramer5087]

Take an ESP Kamikaze, strip the graphic and replace it with a solid color. What ESP model is that?

[@marialenaho5249]

Interesting video! Thanks you! I know that guitars are made in factories and they are too harsh to build them, because it is tiring and needs many hours! I have watched videos how to make a guitar and it's too hard! I know that I'm not able to make a guitar if I want to, because I couldn't make it on my own.

[@Disabledguitarist1985]

Is ESP USA snd ESP custom shop the same thing ?

[@mundojuillerat]

Good question that I should've talked about. ESP USA and ESP Custom Shop (in Japan) are two different shops. To be accurate I looked it up on ESP's site and copy/pasted below. Having been to ESP USA I can say that it's set up as a "custom shop" and the guitars they put out are high level professional quality. Thanks! ESP Custom Shop The ESP Custom Shop is located in Japan. We make three types of guitars and basses there: completely custom instruments, ESP Original Series instruments (see below), and our Signature Series guitars and basses under the ESP brand. Each instrument made at the ESP Custom Shop is handcrafted by experienced luthiers to the highest level of detail, and rank among the finest guitars in the world. ESP USA Beginning in 2013, we opened a manufacturing shop near our United States ESP headquarters. We founded this facility for the purpose of building our ESP USA Series, which are high-performance guitars designed for serious professional players. ESP USA models are not custom guitars, but they may be personalized with several aspects, including the top woods, the finish color and type (gloss or satin), a choice of passive or active pickups, and more.

[@Disabledguitarist1985]

@@mundojuillerat esp custom shop japan is above the ESP California shop. But yeah they are both custom guitar quality level

[@jimclark7917]

I wonder if they are better than the Jackson custom shop

[@twootters7433]

I love how people say..."my dear friend".

[@zipchtkdn7804]

That looks like carvin old cnc

[@jerryparisi7777]

SO THAT SHOP IS DESIGNED YOU HAVE TO WALK THRU ALL THE DUST OF WOODSHOP TO GET TO PAINT AND BACKTHRU TO BUFFING .

[@rendyandrian7149]

What guitar does your son get for his birthday ?

[@mundokealii7902]

Rendy Andrian I’m getting a Ponce guitar, you should check him out on IG @ponceguitars.

[@luthiferbuilds]

Fuck yeah STEW MAC tools!

[@yellowcat1310]

ironwood might sink

[@akumakami9727]

Are you related to Garth 🤔? Tell him and Wayne I said hi.

[@vgs44]

I think you filmed a bunch of OSHA violations lmao

[@andrewwilkinson3510]

Wouldn't buy one from them, just didn’t convince me the way the Japanese do. I mean, using a pointy headstock as a pointer = no go for me. He even touched the other neck with it.. And that natural binding on the V @19:25 isn’t 100% symmetrical. Let's hope they can keep grinding and get as good a rep as the Japanese. :)

[@M4ttNet]

Just wanted to point out that's a V-II, the entire design is supposed to be asymmetrical vs the V

[@kiileielei3415]

" I Don't get shit about what U'r saying, but just lukin' at your workshop period/ Soldier unconventional soon to hit UNITED STATES FOR GUD! KIILEI

[@bripolar]

Camera child?

[@LeoM-zt3pl]

A lot of those workers are gonna have respiratory issues as they get older. Zero face masks, gloves , eye protection etc.

[@darkscience1466]

This video makes me not want to buy one of these. This looks so amateurish compared to ESP Japan.

[@Rockstar-lx2li]

Poor camera work..

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Isnt that called a compound radius neck?